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Acting Temple University President, DEI & Civil Rights Advocate Dies Suddenly

Insight Into Diversity

Epps had served as the acting president of Temple since only April, but she was a longtime staple of the Philadelphia campus. During that time, she was a champion for civil rights, a fierce proponent of advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the legal profession, and a mentor to other attorneys from diverse backgrounds.

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Dismantling DEI at University of Wyoming

Insight Into Diversity

Discussions have remained ongoing, as university president Ed Seidel, PhD, organized a working group made up of staff senate, faculty senate, deans, and administrators to “provide suggestions … on how essential DEI programs, activities, and functions could be organized and funded within the university to make them most effective.”

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5 higher ed thought leaders we are following

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Topics covered on her podcast include excellence in teaching, instructional design, open education, diversity and inclusion, productivity, creativity in teaching, educational technology, and blended learning. 4 Lessons from University Presidents on Crisis Thinking and Resilient Leadership Nathan D.

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SOULS: The Academy’s Recipe for Transformation, Retention, and Creating a Better World

Insight Into Diversity

As a tenured full professor of political science, a former director of graduate studies and admissions, dean, and now vice president for diversity, I view the crisis of Black faculty and staff retention in the Academy as a quiet earthquake — slowly moving beneath the ground, embodying the terrors that make academic life untenable.

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Organizational problems underlie 'cancel culture' (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

It’s hardly a new observation that, in corporatespeak, colleges and universities are ailing companies. As Temple University president Jason Wingard writes , our attrition rates would send a corporate entity into meltdown. Later, students email the dean demanding the instructor publicly apologize and undergo training.

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President moves: hearty welcomes and rocky goodbyes

University Business

Cole led the Division of Student Affairs at Marquette for the past seven years and was recognized by his peers and students for his response to the pandemic and for cultivating an inclusive campus culture for first-generation students and those of color. The Benedictine president-elect holds a Ph.D. Slabach Frederick G.

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President moves: Milestone hires and dramatic exits start off the month

University Business

The bulk of her career in higher education comes from her 16 years at the University of Chicago. Beginning as a professor of obstetrics and gynecology, she then went on to become the associate dean of diversity and inclusion for BU’s biological sciences division.